PRL: Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. http://prl.aps.org/ Recently published articles in Phys. Rev. Lett. in the Table of Content section "Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc." en-us Copyright (c) 2008 The American Physical Society 2008-05-07T08:09:11-04:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2008-05-07T08:09:11-04:00 rss@aps.org Suppression of Nonlinear Interactions in Resonant Macroscopic Quantum Devices: The Example of the Solid-State Ring Laser Gyroscope http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.183901 Author(s): Sylvain Schwartz, François Gutty, Gilles Feugnet, Philippe Bouyer, and Jean-Paul Pocholle<br/>We report fine-tuning of nonlinear interactions in a solid-state ring laser gyroscope by vibrating the gain medium along the cavity axis. We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that nonlinear interactions vanish for some values of the vibration parameters, leading to quasi-ideal rotati...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183901] Published Mon May 05, 2008 Sylvain Schwartz, François Gutty, Gilles Feugnet, Philippe Bouyer, and Jean-Paul Pocholle 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.183901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 183901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 18 2008-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 183901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Dynamics of Cryogenic Jets: Non-Rayleigh Breakup and Onset of Nonaxisymmetric Motions http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174505 Author(s): A. V. Boukharov, M.  Büscher, A. S. Gerasimov, V. D. Chernetsky, P. V. Fedorets, I. N. Maryshev, A. A. Semenov, and A. F. Ginevskii<br/>We report development of generators for periodic, satellite-free fluxes of monodisperse drops with diameters down to 10  μm from cryogenic liquids such as H_{2} , N_{2} , Ar, and Xe (and, as a reference fluid, water). While the break up of water jets can be described well by Rayleigh’s linear...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174505] Published Fri May 02, 2008 A. V. Boukharov, M.  Büscher, A. S. Gerasimov, V. D. Chernetsky, P. V. Fedorets, I. N. Maryshev, A. A. Semenov, and A. F. Ginevskii 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174505 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174505 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 174505 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Lagrangian Statistical Theory of Fully Developed Hydrodynamical Turbulence http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174504 Author(s): K. P. Zybin, V. A. Sirota, A. S. Ilyin, and A. V. Gurevich<br/>The Lagrangian velocity structure functions in the inertial range of fully developed fluid turbulence are for the first time derived based on the Navier-Stokes equation. For time Ï„ much smaller than the correlation time, the structure functions are shown to obey the scaling relations K_{n} (Ï„)∝Ï...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174504] Published Fri May 02, 2008 K. P. Zybin, V. A. Sirota, A. S. Ilyin, and A. V. Gurevich 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174504 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174504 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 174504 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Spectral Coarse Graining and Synchronization in Oscillator Networks http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174104 Author(s): David Gfeller and Paolo De Los Rios<br/>Coarse graining techniques offer a promising alternative to large-scale simulations of complex dynamical systems, as long as the coarse-grained system is truly representative of the initial one. Here, we investigate how the dynamical properties of oscillator networks are affected when some nodes are...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174104] Published Fri May 02, 2008 David Gfeller and Paolo De Los Rios 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174104 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174104 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-02T00:00:00-04:00 174104 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Dynamical Tunneling in Mushroom Billiards http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174103 Author(s): A. Bäcker, R. Ketzmerick, S. Löck, M. Robnik, G. Vidmar, R. Höhmann, U. Kuhl, and H.-J. Stöckmann<br/>We study the fundamental question of dynamical tunneling in generic two-dimensional Hamiltonian systems by considering regular-to-chaotic tunneling rates. Experimentally, we use microwave spectra to investigate a mushroom billiard with adjustable foot height. Numerically, we obtain tunneling rates f...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174103] Published Thu May 01, 2008 A. Bäcker, R. Ketzmerick, S. Löck, M. Robnik, G. Vidmar, R. Höhmann, U. Kuhl, and H.-J. Stöckmann 2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174103 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174103 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 174103 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Uncertainty-Limited Turnstile Transport in Deformed Microcavities http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174102 Author(s): Jeong-Bo Shim, Sang-Bum Lee, Sang Wook Kim, Soo-Young Lee, Juhee Yang, Songky Moon, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An<br/>We present both experimental and theoretical evidence for uncertainty-limited turnstile transport in deformed microcavities. As the degree of cavity deformation was increased, a secondary peak gradually emerged in the far-field emission patterns to form a double-peak structure. Our observation can b...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174102] Published Thu May 01, 2008 Jeong-Bo Shim, Sang-Bum Lee, Sang Wook Kim, Soo-Young Lee, Juhee Yang, Songky Moon, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An 2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174102 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174102 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 174102 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Experimental Confirmation of Kelvin’s Equilibria http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174503 Author(s): Georgios H. Vatistas, Hamid A. Abderrahmane, and M. H. Kamran Siddiqui<br/>We experimentally corroborate the core analytical deductions of Thomson’s 124-year-old theorem, vis-à-vis the stability of a ring of N vortices. Observations made in water vortices produced inside a cylinder via a revolving disk confirm that the regular N-gons are stable for N≤6 and unstable fo...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174503] Published Wed Apr 30, 2008 Georgios H. Vatistas, Hamid A. Abderrahmane, and M. H. Kamran Siddiqui 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174503 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174503 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 174503 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Poincaré Recurrences from the Perspective of Transient Chaos http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174101 Author(s): Eduardo G. Altmann and Tamás Tél<br/>We obtain a description of the Poincaré recurrences of chaotic systems in terms of the ergodic theory of transient chaos. It is based on the equivalence between the recurrence time distribution and an escape time distribution obtained by leaking the system and taking a special initial ensemble. Thi...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174101] Published Tue Apr 29, 2008 Eduardo G. Altmann and Tamás Tél 2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174101 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174101 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 174101 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Measuring the Complete Transverse Spatial Mode Spectrum of a Wave Field http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.173902 Author(s): Gabriel F. Calvo, Antonio Picón, and Roberta Zambrini<br/>We put forward a method that allows the experimental determination of the entire spatial mode spectrum of any arbitrary monochromatic wave field in a plane normal to its propagation direction. For coherent optical fields, our spatial spectrum analyzer can be implemented with a small number of benchm...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173902] Published Tue Apr 29, 2008 Gabriel F. Calvo, Antonio Picón, and Roberta Zambrini 2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.173902 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173902 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 173902 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Hydrodynamic Crystals: Collective Dynamics of Regular Arrays of Spherical Particles in a Parallel-Wall Channel http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174502 Author(s): M. Baron, J. Bławzdziewicz, and E. Wajnryb<br/>Simulations of over 10^{3} hydrodynamically coupled solid spheres are performed to investigate collective motion of linear trains and regular square arrays of particles suspended in a fluid bounded by two parallel walls. Our novel accelerated Stokesian-dynamics algorithm relies on simplifications as...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174502] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 M. Baron, J. Bławzdziewicz, and E. Wajnryb 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174502 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174502 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 174502 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonperturbative Approach to the Nonlinear Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Premixed Flames http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174501 Author(s): Hazem El-Rabii, Guy Joulin, and Kirill A. Kazakov<br/>The problem of a nonperturbative description of unsteady 2D premixed flames with arbitrary gas expansion is addressed. By considering the flame as a surface of discontinuity with an arbitrary local burning rate and gas velocity jumps, we show that the flame front evolution can be determined without ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174501] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 Hazem El-Rabii, Guy Joulin, and Kirill A. Kazakov 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174501 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174501 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 174501 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Vibrational Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Interfacial Water is Dominated by Intramolecular Coupling http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.173901 Author(s): Maria Sovago, R. Kramer Campen, George W. Wurpel, Michiel Müller, Huib J. Bakker, and Mischa Bonn<br/>Using the surface-specific vibrational technique of vibrational sum-frequency generation, we reveal that the double-peaked structure in the vibrational spectrum of hydrogen-bonded interfacial water molecules originates from vibrational coupling between the stretch and bending overtone, rather than f...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173901] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 Maria Sovago, R. Kramer Campen, George W. Wurpel, Michiel Müller, Huib J. Bakker, and Mischa Bonn 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.173901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 17 2008-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 173901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Localized Nonlinear Waves in Systems with Time- and Space-Modulated Nonlinearities http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164102 Author(s): Juan Belmonte-Beitia, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Vadym Vekslerchik, and Vladimir V. Konotop<br/>Using similarity transformations we construct explicit nontrivial solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials and nonlinearities depending both on time and on the spatial coordinates. We present the general theory and use it to calculate explicitly nontrivial solutions such as peri...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164102] Published Fri Apr 25, 2008 Juan Belmonte-Beitia, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Vadym Vekslerchik, and Vladimir V. Konotop 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164102 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164102 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 164102 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Residual Coulomb Interaction Fluctuations in Chaotic Systems: The Boundary, Random Plane Waves, and Semiclassical Theory http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164101 Author(s): Steven Tomsovic, Denis Ullmo, and Arnd Bäcker<br/>New fluctuation properties arise in problems where both spatial integration and energy summation are necessary ingredients. The quintessential example is given by the short-range approximation to the first order ground state contribution of the residual Coulomb interaction. The dominant features com...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164101] Published Fri Apr 25, 2008 Steven Tomsovic, Denis Ullmo, and Arnd Bäcker 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164101 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164101 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 164101 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Sub-Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Train with Constant Carrier Envelope Phase http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163906 Author(s): Wei-Jan Chen, Zhi-Ming Hsieh, Shu Wei Huang, Hao-Yu Su, Chien-Jen Lai, Tsung-Ta Tang, Chuan-Hsien Lin, Chao-Kuei Lee, Ru-Pin Pan, Ci-Ling Pan, and A. H. Kung<br/>We describe the synthesis of periodic waveforms consisting of a train of pulses that are 0.83 cycles long and have an electric field pulse width of 0.44 fs using 7 Raman sidebands generated by molecular modulation in H_{2} . We verify by optical correlation that the carrier-envelope phase is consta...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163906] Published Fri Apr 25, 2008 Wei-Jan Chen, Zhi-Ming Hsieh, Shu Wei Huang, Hao-Yu Su, Chien-Jen Lai, Tsung-Ta Tang, Chuan-Hsien Lin, Chao-Kuei Lee, Ru-Pin Pan, Ci-Ling Pan, and A. H. Kung 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163906 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163906 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 163906 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Second Order Parametric Processes in Nonlinear Silica Microspheres http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163905 Author(s): Yong Xu, Ming Han, Anbo Wang, Zhiwen Liu, and James R. Heflin<br/>We analyze second order parametric processes in a silica microsphere coated with radially aligned nonlinear optical molecules. In a high-Q nonlinear microsphere, we discover that it is possible to achieve ultralow threshold parametric oscillation that obeys the rule of angular momentum conservation....<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163905] Published Fri Apr 25, 2008 Yong Xu, Ming Han, Anbo Wang, Zhiwen Liu, and James R. Heflin 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163905 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163905 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 163905 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Order-Disorder Phase Transition in a Chaotic System http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164503 Author(s): Rinto Anugraha, Koyo Tamura, Yoshiki Hidaka, Noriko Oikawa, and Shoichi Kai<br/>For soft-mode turbulence, which is essentially the spatiotemporal chaos caused by the nonlinear interaction between convective modes and Goldstone modes in electroconvection of homeotropic nematics, a type of order-disorder phase transition was revealed, in which a new order parameter was introduced...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164503] Published Thu Apr 24, 2008 Rinto Anugraha, Koyo Tamura, Yoshiki Hidaka, Noriko Oikawa, and Shoichi Kai 2008-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164503 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164503 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 164503 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Blistering Pattern and Formation of Nanofibers in Capillary Thinning of Polymer Solutions http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164502 Author(s): R. Sattler, C. Wagner, and J. Eggers<br/>When a dilute polymer solution experiences capillary thinning, it forms an almost uniformly cylindrical thread, which we study experimentally. In the last stages of thinning, when polymers have become fully stretched, the filament becomes prone to instabilities, of which we describe two: a novel bre...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164502] Published Wed Apr 23, 2008 R. Sattler, C. Wagner, and J. Eggers 2008-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164502 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164502 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 164502 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Microscale Fluid Flow Induced by Thermoviscous Expansion Along a Traveling Wave http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164501 Author(s): Franz M. Weinert, Jonas A. Kraus, Thomas Franosch, and Dieter Braun<br/>The thermal expansion of a fluid combined with a temperature-dependent viscosity introduces nonlinearities in the Navier-Stokes equations unrelated to the convective momentum current. The couplings generate the possibility for net fluid flow at the microscale controlled by external heating. This nov...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164501] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 Franz M. Weinert, Jonas A. Kraus, Thomas Franosch, and Dieter Braun 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.164501 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164501 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 164501 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Čerenkov Radiation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163904 Author(s): Y. Zhang, Z. D. Gao, Z. Qi, S. N. Zhu, and N. B. Ming<br/>We study nonlinear Čerenkov radiation generated from a nonlinear photonic crystal waveguide where the nonlinear susceptibility tensor is modulated by the ferroelectric domain. Nonlinear polarization driven by an incident light field may emit coherently harmonic waves at new frequencies along the di...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163904] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 Y. Zhang, Z. D. Gao, Z. Qi, S. N. Zhu, and N. B. Ming 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163904 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163904 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 163904 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Radiation Torque and Force on Optically Trapped Linear Nanostructures http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163903 Author(s): F. Borghese, P. Denti, R. Saija, M. A. Iatì, and O. M. Maragò<br/>We study the optical trapping of highly elongated linear nanostructures in the focal region of a high-numerical aperture lens (optical tweezers). The radiation torque and trapping force on these nanostructures that are modeled as chains of identical spherical scatterers are calculated by means of mu...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163903] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 F. Borghese, P. Denti, R. Saija, M. A. Iatì, and O. M. Maragò 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163903 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163903 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 163903 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Quantitative Phase Imaging with a Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscope http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163902 Author(s): M. D. de Jonge, B. Hornberger, C. Holzner, D. Legnini, D. Paterson, I. McNulty, C. Jacobsen, and S. Vogt<br/>We obtain quantitative phase reconstructions from differential phase contrast images obtained with a scanning transmission x-ray microscope and 2.5 keV x rays. The theoretical basis of the technique is presented along with measurements and their interpretation.<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163902] Published Tue Apr 22, 2008 M. D. de Jonge, B. Hornberger, C. Holzner, D. Legnini, D. Paterson, I. McNulty, C. Jacobsen, and S. Vogt 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163902 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163902 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 163902 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Fiber-Coupled Dual-Mode Waveguide Interferometer with λ/130 Fringe Spacing http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163901 Author(s): Richard M. Jenkins, Andrew F. Blockley, J. Banerji, and Alan R. Davies<br/>Predictions and measurements of a multimode waveguide interferometer operating in a fiber-coupled, “dual-mode” regime are reported. With a 1.32  μm source, a complete switching cycle of the output beam is produced by a 10.0 nm incremental change in the 8.0  μm width of the hollow plan...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163901] Published Mon Apr 21, 2008 Richard M. Jenkins, Andrew F. Blockley, J. Banerji, and Alan R. Davies 2008-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 16 2008-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 163901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Similarity between the Primary and Secondary Air-Assisted Liquid Jet Breakup Mechanisms http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.154502 Author(s): Yujie Wang, Kyoung-Su Im, and Kamel Fezzaa<br/>We report an ultrafast synchrotron x-ray phase-contrast imaging study of the primary breakup mechanism of a coaxial air-assisted water jet. There exist great similarities between the primary (jet) and the secondary (drop) breakup, and in the primary breakup on different length scales. A transition f...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154502] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 Yujie Wang, Kyoung-Su Im, and Kamel Fezzaa 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.154502 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154502 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 154502 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Air Ingestion by a Buckled Viscous Jet of Silicone Oil Impacting the Free Surface of the Same Liquid http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.154501 Author(s): B. Pouligny and M. Chassande-Mottin<br/>As frequently observed in common life, a jet of a viscous liquid impacting on a horizontal surface does not remain straight but instead buckles and folds periodically. We report experiments with planar (ribbonlike) jets of silicone oil impacting the free surface of the same liquid and describe the w...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154501] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 B. Pouligny and M. Chassande-Mottin 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.154501 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154501 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 154501 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Long Wave–Short Wave Resonance in Nonlinear Negative Refractive Index Media http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153905 Author(s): Aref Chowdhury and John A. Tataronis<br/>We show that long wave–short wave resonance can be achieved in a second-order nonlinear negative refractive index medium when the short wave lies on the negative index branch. With the medium exhibiting a second-order nonlinear susceptibility, a number of nonlinear phenomena such as solitary waves...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153905] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 Aref Chowdhury and John A. Tataronis 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153905 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153905 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 153905 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Geometric Properties of Optimal Photonic Crystals http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153904 Author(s): Ole Sigmund and Kristian Hougaard<br/>Photonic crystals can be designed to control and confine light. Since the introduction of the concept by Yablonovitch and John two decades ago, there has been a quest for the optimal structure, i.e., the periodic arrangement of dielectric and air that maximizes the photonic band gap. Based on numeri...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153904] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 Ole Sigmund and Kristian Hougaard 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153904 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153904 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 153904 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Observation of Soliton Tunneling Phenomena and Soliton Ejection http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153901 Author(s): Assaf Barak, Or Peleg, Chris Stucchio, Avy Soffer, and Mordechai Segev<br/>We study, theoretically and experimentally, the nonlinear dynamics of a wave packet launched inside a trap potential. Increasing the power of the wave packet transforms its dynamics from linear tunneling through a potential barrier, to soliton tunneling, and eventually, above a well-defined threshol...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153901] Published Thu Apr 17, 2008 Assaf Barak, Or Peleg, Chris Stucchio, Avy Soffer, and Mordechai Segev 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 153901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Laboratory Demonstration of an Infrared-to-Visible Up-Conversion Interferometer for Spatial Coherence Analysis http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153903 Author(s): S. Brustlein, L. Del Rio, A. Tonello, L. Delage, F. Reynaud, H. Herrmann, and W. Sohler<br/>We experimentally demonstrate the possibility of retrieving the spatial coherence of an infrared source by using an up-conversion interferometer. Sum-frequency generation in Ti-diffused periodically poled lithium-niobate waveguides in both arms of the interferometer is used to convert the infrared i...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153903] Published Wed Apr 16, 2008 S. Brustlein, L. Del Rio, A. Tonello, L. Delage, F. Reynaud, H. Herrmann, and W. Sohler 2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153903 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153903 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 153903 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. “Aether Drag” and Moving Images http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153902 Author(s): J. Leach, A. J. Wright, J. B. Götte, J. M. Girkin, L. Allen, S. Franke-Arnold, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett<br/>We contrast the two situations in which either a light beam is incident on a moving medium or a moving optical image is incident on a stationary medium. The principle of relativity suggests that the effects on the light of propagating through the medium should be similar. We find, however, that ther...<br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153902] Published Tue Apr 15, 2008 J. Leach, A. J. Wright, J. B. Götte, J. M. Girkin, L. Allen, S. Franke-Arnold, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett 2008-04-15T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153902 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153902 text/html article Physical Review Letters 100 15 2008-04-15T00:00:00-04:00 153902 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.